What is your one piece of golden advice?

[JonSnowsWhore]

What's your one golden piece of weight loss advice, your best tip, to share with us all? Anything that helps you shift some lbs, stick to it, keeps you motivated, or gets you back on it after a bit of a binge.
I'm doing weight watchers so for me it's knowing I have the group leader to weigh me every week, so I'd look a bit of an idiot if I just put on weight every week although I think I've majorly messed up this week!

[ItMustBeBedtimeSurely]

Definitely go to bed hungry. I suspect this is good from a health perspective too.

[Mrstumbletap]

"Hunger doesn't grow, it comes in waves.

Changed the way I think about food massively, and it's so true. If you are hungry, sometimes just distract yourself, have a coffee etc. In twenty minutes that feeling will go away completely. Helps getting to dinner time or lunchtime so much easier.

People seem to have a fear of being hungry, you won't drop down dead from being hungry for 10 mins. Just wait for the wave to pass.

[JonSnowsWhore]

Yes to the coffee thing, I've found that does help. I'm off to try that now actually!

The food diary definitely makes you think doesn't it. Before I never would have thought anything of grabbing. A McDonald's for lunch & then going out for dinner or just having a massive plate of something fattening, with a chocolate bar to fill in the gaps! But once you see how quickly your points go down on the ww app (not sure how it works for sw) you realise just how many extra calories you must have actually been eating. It's always fascinated me how it's built into some people to see it and other to just not!

[PosiePootlePerkins]

Hello beela

[buggerthebotox]

Nothing tastes so good as slim feels.

Words of Kate Moss, I think, but it works for me as a philosophy too...however putting it into practice isn't quite so easy.

[IveGotBillsTheyreMultiplying]

Eat shit, feel shit.

Eat well, feel well.

[TidyDancer]

Record everything you eat and don't drink your calories.

I use My Fitness Pal and pay for the premium option, you end up getting lots of useful insight into what you're putting into your body.

Diet drinks for me are saviour, they don't induce the same cravings in everyone and if I'm going to drink a soft drink other than water I'd rather have a Diet Coke (for eg) than a normal one or a fruit juice full of sugar.

[Peaceandl0ve]

For me, counting calories and weigh everything. When i fancy a handful of nuts or dried fruit by the time i have worked out the calories i have thought better of it. Ditto sauces like mayonnaise, dressings etc, they add so much to the calorie load.

[JonSnowsWhore]

God yes to the things you don't even realise, little bits of dressing, handful of nuts, milk in your tea etc! I'm giving in now & having my lunch before I go out, salad with chicken breast & low fat dressing. Had my big treat the other day so need to be disciplined

[Peaceandl0ve]

Measure the dressing, at least until you get an appreciation of portion size...
And have a lovely afternoon. No food tastes as good as feeling slim feels!

[JonSnowsWhore]

Well, my bloody salad has gone off 😄 this may give you an insight into

[JonSnowsWhore]

Why I'm asking for tips & why I'm rarely successful, I'm extremely unorganised!! Chicken & mushroom omelette instead

[guiltybystander]

Here's my bit: gaining and losing weight is simple mathematics. If you take more calories in than you burn off, you'll gain weight. No need for bollox like it's your body type, your hormones and blabla...bullshit.
BTW asking people who struggle with their weight for weight loss tips is bad. Ask the skinny ones because they must be doing something right.

[JonSnowsWhore]

Haha guilty this might show up in active though & attract some tips from people who have lost. And some of us here have lost before & put back on so are losing again

[Ninjakittysmells]

I've on this super strict regime done by my gym to lose 20lbs jn 6 weeks. For me the things that have worked are:

Portion control - sizes are tiny compared to what I would normally have!

Drink lots of water.

Cut out sugar / salt - first few days are hard, but then I feel SO much better for it.

Like others have said, get a Fitbit. It really helps me keep on track of how much I've moved / calories I've taken in.

Food prep and keep to the plan. My mantra at the moment is follow the plan! It really works and stops me wobbling!

Good luck :)

[Peanutbuttercheese]

I have had an entire lifetime of being slim but am messed up about body image I literally have the mindset that I can't be fat. Modelled when young and had to sign a contract that meant I couldn't change shape, weigh more etc.

That's what Kate Moss philosophy is as mentioned upthread but she made it sound poetical. That's more the reality.

[JonSnowsWhore]

I've got a Fitbit, funnily enough I can't find it... I'm not painting myself in the best light here

[greylove]

Only eat cake on your birthday not on everyone else's lol

[JonSnowsWhore]

😂 greylove I don't think I'm ready for that level of commitment

[Mrstumbletap]

Ah yes, another one -look at what slim and healthy people and copy them.

If you are at a party or a buffet, find the slim/healthy person and copy their food intake you will be surprised!

A woman at work will eat curry with broccoli and leave the rice, or meatballs with peas and carrots and leave the pasta. Whenever I sit with her I tend to copy her as she is slim and doesn't struggle with her weight. Neither do I really at a size 10, it she helps keep me on track without even knowing it, I don't tell her what I'm doing!

[Lotsofsausage]

1. do not do a fad diet, they don't work long term.
   
2. be well prepared, pre plan/ cook meals, but lots of healthy snacks - fruit/ nuts/ protein bars.
   
3. up your protein and good fats - reduce refined carbs massively. no carbs apart from veg for dinner.
   
4. EXERCISE
   
5. drink a pint of water before meals

[MiddlingMum]

Alcohol is just wet calories.

Clean your teeth frequently.

Go to bed hungry.

Close the kitchen at 7.00 pm.

Keep busy and active, easier to ignore hunger pangs.

Sip water, you might be thirsty, not hungry.

Learn to say "no, thank you."

A friend used to have a magnet on her fridge saying "A moment on your lips, a lifetime on your hips."

[stevie69]

A friend used to have a magnet on her fridge saying "A moment on your lips, a lifetime on your hips."

I have one, with a cat on it, that says: WeightWatchers Cat says 'No points left, Chubby'

[JonSnowsWhore]

Haha I need that fridge magnet! On the whole I agree with the watching slim people thing, but I do have this one friend that confuses the hell out of me. She's a size 8, & it's a running joke among us about the amount she eats when we go out, she'll eat all of her food & what's left of ours, and go to work & order 2 plates of food from their cafe! Never known anything like it, maybe she's not the best slim person to be watching 😂

[Mrstumbletap]

To be fair my friends actually say that to me a lot. If we go for an Indian/Chinese/carvery I will load my plate and usually go up for seconds, and they all say "where do you put it?" "How do you eat so much and stay slim?" But it's because I will know I'm having that Indian/ carvery and eat healthily in the week leading up to it, fast the day before, (just eat 500 calories) and probably eat very little the day of the carvery.

So the calories just balance out over the week, it's essentially the same as saving up your weight watching points/syns for one big meal out.